Thursday, 13 May 2010

Sepia Saturday Week 23

The "sepia" in Sepia Saturday is a general evocation rather than a defining classification. When Kat and I had the idea for Sepia Saturday we wanted a site where old photographs of whatever vintage provided the prompt for memories and musings. The word "sepia" was redolent of the photographic past in the same way that we hoped the photographs featured by all the many contributors would be redolent of a spread of decades and a spread of cultures. I always find that some images can proclaim a particular time in the same way that popular music can. As I look at the magnificent mix of images featured by all the Sepia Saturday contributors, I sometimes have an imagined soundtrack playing along. With some pictures you would have the plucking of a pioneer banjo, with others the excitement of an early jazz band. But with the wonderful pictures featured by Anita of the negativespace blog over the last couple of weeks it is the sound of Sinatra and the Billy May Orchestra. The photographs have the 1950s running through them : the sophistication, the modernism, the hope and the sheer love of post-war life.

You can keep my imaginary soundtrack playing for another week by signing up for Sepia Saturday 23 which will take place on Saturday 15th May 2010. All you have to do is to put up your post and then link by using the following Linky List.

18 comments:

I am going to now follow the lead of everyone else and add my name to the Linky List after I have posted. That seems to be the way everyone has decided to to it and I have always been a follower rather than a leader.

I enjoy this so much and imagine my surprise to find that I am first this week, I have featured my grandson Antonio in an early Sepia pic then followed on to today. He has come through horrific times but I didn't wish to write that on the Blog or remind him. So I have kept with the positive to encourage him on in his walk through life. God Bless All.

Mine's up, as of 2:15 a.m. Saturday. I wish I had better old photographs. My mom's album is filled with blurred, mottled, or out of focus images, with a few great ones every few pages. Ah, well. Looking forward to all the other posts again. Thanks, Alan and Kat, for coming up with the idea for this blog and publishing it.

It is a poor state of affairs when the bloke who is supposed to be organising this blog can't get his Linky Link right. I have entered a new link which hopefully this time will point to my post - or to something of interest.

I've posted a couple of my favorite old photos that hang on my walls to remind me of my roots. Looking forward to visiting you all on Saturday. If my Linky code didn't work in the list, it is also here ... I hope.

I like to add my link after I post as well. However sometimes I forget to put the link in until after you early risers in Europe have checked out other sepias. Oh well my bad! I'll just have to post on GMT instead of EST. haha

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.